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(No Model.)

M. T. WESTON.

- ELEOTRIG TARGET. No. 545,327. Patented Aug. 27, 1895.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT MILTON T. IVESTON, OF KENTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE IIALCYON CYCLE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

ELECTRIC TARG ET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 545,327, dated August 27, I895.

Application filed December 8, 1894. Serial No. 531,232. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern: front face of the target. This plunger is held Be it known that I, MILTON T. WESTON, of in position by means of a contact-strip 17 of Kenton, in the county of Hardin and State of spring metal, the said contactstrip being se- Ohio, have invented a new and Improved cured, to the back of the target, and it ex- 5 Electric larget, of which the following is a tends across and in engagement with the full, clear, and exact description. rear end of the plunger, and the free end of My invention relates to an electric target, the contact-strip 17 is normally in contact adapted for use in connection with merrywith a terminal or contact strip 18, which is go-rounds, to be struck by a spear or wand, secured to the back of the target below the 10 or to be usedin shooting-galleries or in other plunger.

places wherever an ordinary target may be At the rear of .the contact-strip 17 another employed. contact-strip 19 is secured to the back of the A further object of the invention .is to so target, but below the terminal or intermeconstruct the target that when the bulls-eye diate contact plate or strip 18; and the up- I5 has been hit a present of a predetermined per end of the lower contact-strip 19 is bent character will be released for the person makrearward to such an extent that it is normally ing the fortunate shot, the release of said held out of engagement with the spring and present being simultaneous with the striking movable contact-strip 17. In fact, the upper of the bulls-eye and the release being elecor movable contact-strip 17 may he termed a 2o trically accomplished. tongue, and the strips 18 and 19 forward The invention consists in the novel conandrearwardcontact-points. Immediately struction and combination of the several back of the plunger a strip or back-stop 20 parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, is secured upon the back portion of thetarand pointed out in the claims. get in such position as to prevent the plunger 25 Reference is to behad to the accompanying from being pushed rearward from itssocket. drawings, forming a part of this specification, When the plunger 16 is pushed inward it in which similar figures and letters of referbreaks contact between the tongue 17 and once indicate corresponding parts in all the the forward contact-point 18 and immediately views. makes a contact between the said tongue 17 8o 0 Figure 1 is a front elevation of the target and the rear contact-point 19. A wire at is and likewise a diagrammatic View of the elecattached at one end to the forward contacttric connections. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the point 18, a second wire 0 being attached to disk of the target, illustrating the electric the spring-tongue 17, while a third wire I) is connections at the back; and Fig. 3 is atransattached to the rear contact-point 19. 8 5 5 verse section through the disk of the target, Referring to Fig. 1, the battery 26 is interthe said section being taken on the line 3 3 posed in the circuit a o, the wires of which of Fig. 2. are, respectively, connected with the spring- In carrying out the invention, the disk or tongue 17 and the contact-point 18, and at its target 11 is suspended by cords 12 or the opposite end the said wire 0 is connected 4o equivalents thereof within a circular frame with an electromagnet 22 and an electric bell 13, said frame being mounted preferably upon 24. An armature 23 is attracted by the maga suitable standard 14, or the frame may be net, and this armature is provided with a otherwise held in predetermined position. A hook or equivalent device for the purpose of spring 15 is attached to the bottom of the tarsupporting a present of any desired descrip- 9 5 45 get and the bottom-portion of the frame, servtion. The wire a is connected, as heretofore ing to set the target quickly after it has been stated, with the forward contact-point 18 and struck by a ball, bullet, cane, or wand. likewise with the magnet 22. Now the spring In the central portion of the target 11 a tongue 17 being in normal contact with the plunger 16 is loosely mounted, the head of forward contact-point 18, the circuit is com- :00 5c the plunger being at the back, and normally pleted through the magnet 22, and when the the outer end of the plunger is flush with the circuit is broken the armature will be re- I "5 the beiiilst," and a switchfiiie introducediin;

I the: circuit, as shown inl igi 1. iVhen the plunger pushed inward -t'he contact be r tween the tongue-'17 audforward n peint i8-isbrekem as heretofore stated and contact 'hei tween the tongue l izandth'e rear:point is immediately made'an d; the bell wilt "be rung.

and atthe same time thepresent wilibe 2 madewthrongh the bell sitn nl-teneou'sly; 13y

bell brcken .1 byjtur ning the switch; If the I wi ll be observed tha tthe plu ng e r mi gilt behit,

wieasethe prize and the bell weuld not'rinqu A second swnehee is :used "in? tiieeircnitcte.

x tien," substantially described, hetweennthe sup-porting itleviceand alarm and the bulbs :eyewhereby upen the mevernent of thebulfs ye, in 1 cue direction the en ppertingl device and illfilfllli] nwiitbebreughtinte operation,

- vuse ply break the circuit when-not in use.

he one euceeedin switch is turned rte the pcsiticn "shown, (let-ted lines the-circuit threugh the bell" is y broken inthe switeh w hile :thecircuit threu'gh I r, the magnet is inade'throug'lr newness and e" and the switch; as-shown in Fig. *"ihnsit."

continuonsly,bnt the magnet would, nat re -"llh-ettarget is especially ad'aifit-ed for use in When 'soused; I the target is'set up z t-prosper: distance from t a *th-e inaehine and each of 'the riders is fur:

'uished with a "cane or wand; andas theynass I "the target each: tviil 'tryttrhit the center; and th-ereby releases the prize and .ring's thcbell. 1 Vfitheut alteration; the 1;

target can be used in shootiw galleries or (wherever a target "is-=*ne'eded.-w The bell U and the said circuit closer and ,the 'other contact point, and hanger "supported by thesaid 'magnet, snbstantiallyas set forth." s

l a target-provided with amovable bullse I eye; contact peints :fi rted upcn the target, an d as setter-tin a movable bullseye, fixed contact points, and;

a movable -lpoint cperated n hyvthe buliseye said poi ntsan alarnnanda nmaguetlocated i n the purpese set forth. a

fatargetyafram e in thich-thetarget. is :snspen dedya 'nievabte bulfseye, an alarm, a I

'aspring peint'cperated by the increment, of; :the bull" eye to make or brealta circuit, a in Lmagnet; alarm; a'vhangeradapted to he -attraetedby, the in agnet wan d an electriccom d r013 pe'd "or releas ed at the magnet; I n tact, the circuit threughthe magnetisbrekenand I I5 I interpio ing "the sWitchJBlt -the target 3113337 be i short ecircuited and the circuit through ihe n the c'ontact points (if-said magnet an d cal arm, 1 i

forengagernentwith either of the-fixed points; a batteryfin circuitcenneeticnwithallietthe;;, 1

thesaid circuits,likewisea sW-it'e-hiWher-eby a thetarget may be shortcircuited,asandpfer sue .Dliill' deviceandan electricni fifiillletr I a; lean electric t-arge *tlifififimbiititillfin(if; a target having amovable.bullseye the eirf, cnit "closer actuated trern thebulis eye and 1 having two: contactpeints aneiectric circuit iuciuding analarmthe circuit cioserand one "of said contactpoints, a second electric cir cuit including an electro-niagnet, the said circuit closer and the other contact point, a hanger supported by the magnet, and means for short-circuiting the said circuit closer, substantially as set forth.

MILTON T. WESTON. \Vitnesses:

C. SEDGWIOK,

F. WV. HANAFORD.

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